Fantasy Football 2017 - MEGALODON Episode – Week 12 Matchups, Starts & More!

Danny Woodhead, well, okay, I'm not saying he flies. Danny Woodhead levitates. It's just a very fun expression. Sure. That's ruining your points. I would rather play Danny Woodhead than Alex Collins because when you try to rush up the middle or get the edge on the Houston Texans. Between the tackle. Yeah, sure. Tomato, tomato potato. To be fair, if you could just.

fly. I mean, you would be really, you would never be tackled. You'd be the one-on-one. And less injury risk, unless you fly too fast or to the sun. But getting back to my point here, if you remember the Houston Texans week one, week one was when, you know, the birth of Leonard Fournette in the NFL where he went, you know, you've got 142 rushing yards and a touchdown given up. That was the last rushing touchdown that the Houston Texans gave up.

in week one. Since that time, they have given up zero touchdowns and only one other game since then where they've given up 100 rushing yards to a team, not to a running back. So I think, look, Alex Collins, he's impressed me for who he is. I'm not saying, but he's limited. But he's limited. The Baltimore Ravens aren't this great rushing offense. Are you expecting Danny Woodhead then to have a good week?

I think he is a... Would you start him over Alex Collins? I would start him over Alex Collins, but I'm not excited about either. Keenan Allen, Alex Collins, Amir Abdullah. Those were the pump the brakes this week. And that was Pump the Brakes with O'Reilly. Auto parts, better parts, better prices every single day. Let's talk news, boys. News and notes from around the league. All right, Andre Ellington was claimed by the Texans who just lost the Outta Foreman. I expect Ellington, if healthy, to get a lot of work.

I would say not a lot of work, but it makes sense that they needed some depth. I mean, if you do look at the amount of carries that Deontiformen got, you know, Alford Blue last year got over 100 rushing attempts, I think that he will get a little bit of work. It scares me, though, that he has the pass-catching ability because Deonti-Forman didn't. And so Lamar Miller was safe in that role. I worry if he starts encroaching on that, it might actually hurt. They just need more weapons. I mean, they lost Will Fuller, now they lost Deont-Forman.

Hey, guys. Sanity restored. Sanity restored. Tyrod Taylor, starting a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. Congratulations, Tyrod. You have earned the starting job. I knew you could do it, McDermott. I knew you could make the right call. That's why I made Tyler Taylor. No. He said it's right for the team. That's what his comment was. And then all the reporters went, doi! I'm giving him zero credit. What? McDermit? Yeah. No. No, you don't get to make an...

an idiot's decision and then undo it. And then be like, oh, no, we're going to do the right thing for the team. The right thing for the team was to never have done that in the first place. So you don't get out. Yes, but. You're a buffoon. You could also have kept digging the hole. Yeah, exactly. It was a mistake for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to trade up into the second round draft kicker.

But it was good to move on and cut your losses early. Sometimes you have to make those decisions after bad ones. And I give credit for that. So shame on you, Mike. Confirmed Case Kingdom is going to start on Thursday. We expected it. He will be starting. The Broncos are going to start Paxton Lynch in week 12 against the Raiders. Which I mean, you've given him a chance to succeed against the Raiders. And we've also heard that Trevor Simeon will be the backup. Yes. So now Brock has gone.

Top to bottom. So there has also been just ridiculousness happening there for the Denver Broncos decisions. Well, what they do in the first practice of the week, they put two chairs out, and then they push play on a boom box, and the guys walk around them, and then as soon as they hit stop, I mean, this is what I've heard. No, this is fact. The two guys have to get in the chairs. There's a first chair and a second chair, and then the third guy's out. Brock was slow this week. I thought it was, and then one of the chairs underneath has the envelope.

Oh, you're starting. You're the starter. It's not good. It's not good in Denver. You have a new offensive coordinator against a new defensive coordinator in this matchup. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly. New defensive coordinator for the Raiders who haven't picked a pass off. I bet you Paxton Lynch can change that. So, look, fantasy-wise, let's talk about both of those quarterbacks starting, Tyrod and Paxton Lynch. For Tyrod, it means an endorsement of...

Your confidence in McCoy. Zay Jones is relevant. In my opinion, Jay Jones has looked much better. And if Benjamin is out, Zay Jones is going to get targeted. And Charles Clay goes back to being Mr. Necessary. Jason, I believe your stream of the week was Tyrod. It sure was. That's good that he's playing. That's great news. Step one. Yeah, I think he's a fine stream, but he, because the matchup is good against the Chiefs, but also remember, you know.

Tyrod's much better at home. And that's not to disparage him as a street. No, I agree. He is much better at home. It's just what Kansas City has given up, especially to rushing, you know, to quarterbacks on the ground. I think Tyrod will expose that a lot this week. All right. Well, let's do some. Go ahead. Just out of curiosity. So the Paxson Lynch news, how this affects Demarius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. Can you trust those guys to start? I saw Scott Barrett.

Pro Football Focus tweeted out, and he was kind of breaking down the limited sample we have of Paxton Lynch. And the target share was to Emmanuel Sanders in his favor. I think what you do in that situation, since we don't know, I mean, we just don't know what Paxton Lynch is going to be able to do. I think you can lean a little bit on the matchup. Oakland struggled. Two very talented wide receivers. If Paxton Lynch is able to do anything, this is an opportunity for him to do it. Yeah, I still play both Thomas. Yeah, I guess that's the...

That's the gist. All right, we're going to do an early in and out. It is very early. Wednesday. So we're going to give you our best guests on some of these injured players, what's going to happen, just so you know a lay of the land before you get ready. I mean, you've got three games you've got to prepare for tomorrow already. Oh, hey. You're preparing for the Minnesota, Detroit, Dallas, the Chargers, Washington, and New York are all playing tomorrow. We try to give you this.

you know, advice every time we talk about the Thursday night football game. But this is an extremely important week to take this advice because you will all have players playing tomorrow, the majority of listeners. If your guy is playing on Thursday, get him out of the flex and put him at your running back, put him at your wide receiver. Even if he's the lous player, if you know you're going to start that guy, get him out of the flex. That way you have...

flexibility going forward with injuries in the week and things like that. You just don't want to take up that flex spot. Yeah, one of the strategic advantages you have in that situation is, you know, maybe you get to play a safer guy in the flex because you scored a bunch of points on Thursday or the inverse of that situation. You can react to how your opponent. And with six games on Thursday, you might have a little idea how your matchup's going. Six teams. Yeah, sorry, with six teams, three games.

You might have a gauge of how your matchups going and what type of players you need to play and you want to have that flexibility like Jason said. Also, it's Waver Day. Remember to drop it like it's hot. Look, and once again, I mean, we talked about yesterday how people, you know, kind of like, oh, this one. Oh, I got, I got tweeted at. Yeah, someone in their league just grabbed Devante Freeman off of the waiver wire. And look.

These things, they just happen. I know. I know that half the listeners are like, well, that would never happen in my league. Look, we play in as competitive a league as there exists. And sometimes. Not Devante Freeman levels, but there are players that sneak through. And people get put in tough positions. Now, we're past the by weeks, but injuries put people in a position where they have to drop somebody that don't want to drop and things like that. Always check. Drop a leg, it's all. All right. Let's play in and out. What's it going to be?

Fly. Are you in or out? All right. Quarterback position. Jay Cutler, Jacoby Brissette, James Winston. So Cutler is the concussion. I'm going to say he will be out. I think that he'll be in. Yeah, we have absolutely no news on this one. Yeah, we're just waiting. Jacoby Brissette, we think he'll be in? Yes. James Winston. Out. Definitely out. Devonta Freeman now, running back. Yeah, that's tough because he's still in the protocol. I'm going to go in. Yeah, I think he'll play this week. He missed last week. He's feeling better.

I guess he passes the protocol. Samajet P. Ryan. In. In for sure. Duke Johnson. I'll say he is in his shoulder injury during the game, but I think he'll play. Time Montgomery. Oh, Monty. I'm going to say he's out. I mean, you re-agravated the rib injury. If you come back too soon, you're just going to keep playing the cycle. I think they don't have a lot of. They don't have a lot of reason to play. Yeah. Matt Forte, Mike Davis. I'm going to go out for both. Agreed. Yeah.

Mike Davis is the Seahawks running back, by the way. I'm going to let you know that since he came off the practice squad. All right. Let's turn to the wide receivers. Kelvin Benjamin? Not practicing Wednesday. It was just there was no ligament damage in his knee so he could play. I think he's going to miss. I'm going to go out. Sterling Shepherd. He's having major issues. This is a Percy Harvin situation. This is not good. I feel bad for the guy. For the man. Yeah. Sterling Shepherd. This is a.

problem. Yeah, to have migraines creep up before last week and cause you to miss the game and now practice too? With days of further rest and you're not able to practice, that's scary. There's no way to know. There's no way to predict, but he could absolutely miss this game. If he misses, are you confident enough? I mean, would you play Roger Lewis? Roger Lewis against the Washington defense? No. No. All right. Juju Smith-Schuster has a small hamstring injury.

I'm laughing because I reported this in the office yesterday. And I think it was Andy's like, what? Like his hamstrings are tiny? Yeah, the way. Yeah, small hamstring injury. Way too small. Well, it was labeled as a small hamstring issue. Yeah, he's got an issue. He's got really small hamstrings. That's why he's so fast. I think he's going to go. Yeah, I would assume he will play as well. Alan Hurons is a no for me. Yeah, it's a no. Chris Hogan? I'm going to stay no. More like Chris Nogan, right?

Right? You deserve this. Yes. Will Fuller. Will Fuller. Will Fuller is going to be out. I'm going to go, no. Jordan Matthews? I think he'll play. Mike Williams? Yeah. Mike Williams will play. Quick note on the quarterback in and out. We don't know if it's Gropel or Bethard this week. You've got to monitor that in San Francisco if for some reason you're starting one of them. Hey, crazy things happen. Yeah, we play in a couple quarterback leagues. I think it makes a difference for Kittle and bits. Jordan Reed?

I'm going to say he's out. I'm going to say he's never coming back to. I mean, yes, he's out. Tyler Croft had a right hand injury. Questionable. Re-entered the game? In. I think so, too. He better be in. He's my, well, oh, don't want to spoil the news. But yes, I think he's going to be in. George Kittal Lul and Bits, the tight-in for the 49ers. Yeah, I think he's in as well. He had a week off and a bye week, so he should be ready.

Most important player in football, MVP Tyrone Smith, left tackle for the Dallas Cowboys. Please. Please be in. This is the first time in the history of the fantasy footballers that are in or out section has included an offensive lineman. He brought a whole new position to the in or out segment. I'm going to start a left tackle league next year. Yeah. I would draft Tyrone Smith. Yeah. It's a game time decision.

The early indications are that he will probably play Monitor closely. And if he's out, so is that. Oh, I had one other player that I wanted to get your opinion on. Do you think Devin Funch is going to play this week? Oh, dude. What do you think? I think he's going to play. Jason? I don't think I have any questions. I think he's in. All right, Devin Funch is going to play. Game Day alerts. Don't forget. People are like, wait, what happened to Devin Scripps? He's fine. He's totally fine. It's just a reason to play the drop. It's just a reason to dance.

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Probably not. And you can do that at Jointhefoot.com. Mike's always on Periscope an hour before kickoff. Now, you're doing that in spite of the fact you're going on a little family vacation. You'll be on Periscope before you leave. Should be. TBD. Too kind, Mike. He should be. We're almost to the fantasy forecast. Oh, my goodness. Before we get into the matchups, all of them. All of the matchups. Brooks, do you have those emergency Oreos like I asked? You got those ready? I'm ready. Thank you.

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